The Road is the greatest trickster of all, winding and forking and vanishing and reappearing across the wide country, making a mockery of maps and carrying even those who know it best into the unfamiliar. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the blackjack is the true child of the Road. Like the Odd Trail itself, the blackjack vanishes and reappears are will. No lock, no wall, no hidden thing is safe from him.
—from Blackjacks of the Roads: Highwaymen, Sharpers, and Empirics (Advanced Player’s Handbook)










